Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.

You can't curl up on the sofa and deny life forever. Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal-position or was I going to woman up?

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.